Gwadar

Gwadar (Baloch and Urdu: گوادر; Arabic: جوادر‎) is a port city on the Arabian Sea in coastal Balochistan. Over the centuries Gwadar has been under the control of various regional and colonial states and since 1958 it has been under the administration of Pakistan. It is the district capital of Gwadar District in the province as well as its winter capital.

Gwadar is strategically located at the apex of the Arabian Sea and at the mouth of the Gulf of Oman. The city's strategic, warm-water, deep-sea Gwadar Port was completed in 2007.^[2] The port is 14 metres (46 ft) deep and handles the largest cargo ships to Pakistan.^[2]The city is emerging as a trade hub and a transit for Chinese oil and timber imports and transshipments.^[2] The city has also been taking an increasing role in China's String of Pearls.^[2]

Gwadar is one of the few planned cities in Pakistan (others being Faisalabad, Jauharabad, and Islamabad), which have been developed from scratch under an urban master plan. Before development, the town was a fishing village.